Tier 8 Bonuses and Other Goodies

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the moment we have all been waiting for! The Tier8 armor sets for all the classes are no longer mystery. We now know how the sets look like, how they are named, but more importantly - what bonuses they give us!

But before we move to the sets, there is a little teaser I would like to toss in here. Remember how at the end of each Arena Season the top teams were rewarded a Nether Drake mount with 310% bonus speed? Well, the reward for the next Arena Season is going to be a Deadly Gladiator's Frostwyrm!

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Bear in mind that we haven't gotten the 3d models for all the sets yet! If you're greeted with a naked Night Elf when you click the "3D Model" link, check back soon—we should have them populated shortly. And don't forget that our Java Model Viewer also includes animations!

Comment by Gore123

Comment by Urdnot

Is there something about the Healer Priest 4-peice bonus that I'm missing? Because that sure seems like a typo on MMO's part.

Comment by Gore123

on 2009-03-19T16:21:57-05:00

Is there something about the Healer Priest 4-peice bonus that I'm missing? Because that sure seems like a typo on MMO's part.

Yeah, it seems to be a typo. I think it's meant to be 150 Bonus Spell Power

Comment by Farreed

on 2009-03-19T16:26:47-05:00

Mage bonuses look pretty nice, glad to see they're giving more love to the different talent trees.

Tho the 4-piece set of the Tank DK armor... Yeah, they're gonna be even harder to bring down in PVP, now. :l

Also, moused over the Maelstrom Weapon for the 4-piece effect on Enhance Shammy gear... What are these "Exotics" mentioned in there, cause I've never heard of em before.

Comment by FlamusBluetooth

on 2009-03-19T16:56:59-05:00

holy crap! the 4 piece bonus for the mage armor is AWSOME! best for fire mages! pyro spam inc! or maybe its just 2 in a row? :P

Comment by BigMiker73

on 2009-03-19T17:01:09-05:00

Unless I'm missing something in the PTR that is going to really change Holy Paladins... WTH is up with the Holy bonus?

When trading in my T-7 I'm loosing 10% crit chance on my Shock AND my HL now cost 5% more..? All for a chance at a small 9 second HoT and a 10% buff to divine shield?

Part of the reason I use holy shock more often now is because it has a higher crit rate granted by my tier 7 set. With a lower crit rating it becomes more expensive and less effective and the T-8 HoT won't happen unless we crit? Holy shock will be parred back down for emergency use only. A 9 second not-so big HoT tick on a main tank isn't really worth a whole lot. And if the raid is taking enough damage to warrant healing them..I'll make them all stack and use HL which will glyph splash heal all of them for about the same as a Holy Shock DoT will do over 9 seconds.

And since they are nerf'ing Sacred shield to a single target at a time... the T-8 four piece bonus is limited to a single target once every 30 seconds!

Maybe this is Blizz's way of telling holy paladins we heal too much, thus we are getting highly situational and mostly useless set bonus?

Comment by Interest

on 2009-03-19T17:24:54-05:00

First!Sweet hunter bonus

QFT!

Also, is it just me or do the 4-piece Priest effects look lackluster?

Comment by Limbero

on 2009-03-19T17:31:46-05:00

Awesomesauce!

Comment by Sakarazu

on 2009-03-19T17:51:24-05:00

Is there something about the Healer Priest 4-peice bonus that I'm missing? Because that sure seems like a typo on MMO's part.

Yeah, it seems to be a typo. I think it's meant to be 150 Bonus Spell Power

After browsing mmo-champion, I think this is to be interpreted as "Your PW:S now increases spellpower by 15% until PW:S is cancelled."

Also, I am almost positive, once again, after browsing MMO-champion, that this is a typo on blizzard's part. Especcialy since multiple sites including wowinsider and mmo-champion also believe this. But, it doesn't really matter does it? :D

Comment by Primar

on 2009-03-19T18:05:29-05:00

Regarding the Priest 4-set bonuses, they're incorrect.

Okay. Just had some information from the guy that datamines for thottbot.

Comment by Interest

on 2009-03-19T18:17:24-05:00

Okay. That makes MUCH more sense.

Comment by ArgentSun

on 2009-03-19T18:33:03-05:00

Wowhead also has the spells: Devious Mind and Disciplined Power, but I am going to just wait a day or two before making any amends. I am not even sure if Blizzard know what their bonus is going to be...

Comment by MoogleDee

on 2009-03-19T18:54:01-05:00

Awesome stuff. I was wondering when they'd throw in a frost wyrm mount.

Just a head's up, the screenshots for the mage sets both lead to the same piccy.

Comment by ArgentSun

on 2009-03-19T19:12:14-05:00

Awesome stuff. I was wondering when they'd throw in a frost wyrm mount.

Just a head's up, the screenshots for the mage sets both lead to the same piccy.

Fix't. Thank you!

Comment by moutardeketchup

on 2009-03-19T20:26:03-05:00

Which one is better: valorous or conqueror?

Comment by ArgentSun

on 2009-03-19T21:26:49-05:00

Conqueror is higher level - drops of Ulduar25. I assume whatever the next raid will be, its 10-man version will drop Conqueror, and 25-man - something new. Maybe Vanquisher's?

Comment by Birry

on 2009-03-19T21:54:27-05:00

WTB Robes on the Mage sets D:

Comment by dhampir1989

on 2009-03-19T22:02:05-05:00

No 3D for the shaman sets either.

I have to say, Im impressed.

Even the dreaded rogue sets that people have been hating since beta look pretty damn good.